ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks as always to my agent, Amy Tipton, my editor, Anica Mrose Rissi, and everyone at Simon Pulse who helped turn this little story into a book.

Thanks to my high school Latin teacher for naming me Diana. Thanks to Reed College and Hum101 for turning me on to the classics. Thanks to Robert Graves, Plato, Hesiod, and all you crazy people on the Internet who know stuff.

Thanks to John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask for “The Origin of Love” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Thanks to the book Life After Life by Raymond A. Moody Jr., MD, for teaching me about near-death experiences.

Thanks to Teah and her family for that summer in Iowa so many years ago.

Thanks to Northern California for teaching me all about woo-woo.

Thanks to everyone who grows food.

And a million thanks to Brian—my partner in crime, my best reader, and my forever best friend.